Two brothers who claim they suffered harassment and abuse from neighbours have lost a landmark Supreme Court bid for compensation from their local council. The pair, identified only as CN
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Scotland’s social services have been honoured for their outstanding commitment to improving the lives of the people they support at the Scottish Social Services Awards which took place in Edinburgh
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A judge has questioned the way council social services bosses handled the care of an autistic woman in her early 20s who featured in a BBC Panorama documentary which raised
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Politicians need to face up to the need for higher taxes or radical reforms to care for the UK’s ageing population, the head of the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)
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An estimated 4.8 million households across England have housing affordability problems, a report has found. This equates to more than one in five (21%) households across the country, according to
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Northern Ireland’s hate crime legislation is set to be reviewed. The region’s Department of Justice has commissioned an independent review of the legislation, to be led by Judge Desmond Marrinan.
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Hospitals should be scrutinised as part of investigations into doctors following the unexpected deaths of patients, an independent review suggests. The report, commissioned by the General Medical Council (GMC), calls
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Families struggling with Universal Credit are “guinea pigs that this Government is experimenting on”, with some being driven to try to take their own lives, MPs have heard. Labour MP
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Ministers faced shouts of “how do you sleep at night” after MPs heard a terminally-ill man is to have his mobility car repossessed. Labour’s Clive Efford raised the case of
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A teenager was given alcohol and raped at a children’s home run by a religious order, the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry (SCAI) has heard. The witness, who is now in
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